Sentences with phrase «like snowplows»

A supernova shock wave is like a snowplow pushing through the interstellar medium, pushing the more dense gas out, says Gehrels.

The St. Elias Mountains in Alaska are more than 5000 meters tall, testament to a tectonic plate wedged underneath the region that is driving them up like a snowplow.

Gravitational effects of Jupiter's sunward jaunt acted like a snowplow, scientists believe, causing a pileup of material near where Earth's orbit is today.

So the stress of Thanksgiving and Christmas is now barreling down on you like a snowplow burying your car even though you only meant to park it there for, like, two minutes.

Not exact matches

It's under - directed, over-acted, paced like a snail and ultimately it does not stack up to even the lowest snow piles scooted aside in some shopping center by the snowplows.

Or maybe not, because while initially it struggles to establish a consistent tone, as soon as the plot kicks off in earnest, the film picks up speed and confidence, venting plumes of sight gags, bloody violence and deadpan, dead - on cultural observations like powdery snow from a thematically - appropriate metaphorical snowplow.

Certainly not if you're driving something considerably smaller than a snowplow, like, say a 2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid.

The long - anticipated ZR2 off - road model, which mercifully abandons the snowplow - like air dam on the rest of the Colorado lineup for a front skidplate and a more rock - friendly approach angle, will likely approach if not surpass $ 50,000 fully equipped.

• Plowing, although this is really only practical for large areas like parking lots or roads; you can't drive a snowplow on a sidewalk!

Residents of cities like Boston will suffer fewer colds, experience fewer heart attacks from shoveling snow, and spend less on heating, snowplowing and road salting.